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     William Walker has always been a hot topic of discussion in Nicaragua but the fact is no one in Nicaragua really cares to read, Nicaraguans in general aren't the most cultured of the Latin Americans as many of us will personally attest to... I have never REALLY read a real primary source on Walker since there is really a scant amount of information regarding that period in Nicaragua's history, CIA factbooks, biographies, sources in the country... I know what I know about him through the few history sources that I could get my hands on that seemed to be as unbiased as possible.  I know more about the Filibusters and Vanderbilt than I do about him in all actuality.  I was a World History major in college but my primary focus was on Roman history and not the actual Latin American studies.  Most Latin American studies teachers are flaming Marxists and I am totally opposed to that line of thinking so I would stay away from their courses of instruction and also most of the people where I live are of Mexican descent but seem to carry a deep anger towards the United States which isn't entirely present in myself or most Nicaraguans to the extent it is in them and now they are trying to blend their radical Leftist ways of thinking with the Black Nationalists and people like that...  honestly I just wish everybody would just stick to their own place but this multicultural world isn't allowing that anymore and you have an intergrated world brought about by hundreds of years cross-cultural mingling and things like that.  Most " indios " are conditioned to love the gringos and accept the crumbs off of the table that they give Nicaraguans, the few that are allowed at the table sometimes wish they never accepted the invitation to dine their and there is always strife present within family groups and there is never really any real agreement as to which side they are really on.  Every one of my cousins is married to a person of European descent and my brother is getting married to an American woman of Polish-Italian descent next week and I really don't know what to think of it anymore.  I honestly doubt my family is going to be satisfied if I marry anything less than a gringa or an upper-class Latina be from wherever it is but I honestly don't find either very appealing as I'm attracted to the darker hues, and I really don't know why.  I guess it's just a question of personal taste but I've seen some really odd things up here as of late, like the Blond-haired white man who looks like Robert E. Lee with a Confederate flag on his windshield and a Chinese wife or the Salvadorian woman dressed in full tribal garb with the EAST INDIAN husband... don't you honestly think it makes no sense?  I just think it's odd that you Peter, as a blond-haired blue-eyed American man of obvious British descent, would want to go to Central America and change his name to Pedro Vega and try to immerse himself in the culture of the place, learn to speak dialected Central American, not Castillian, Spanish and bring your Filipina wife to Costa Rica and pretend like you're a man of all worlds who can come and go as he pleases.  What's wrong with living in the United States?  What about your original state, your roots?  Your family in the U.S.?  Why do people spend more time outside of the country of their birth than in it... let's be real here.  I know you're not anti- " indio " cos you're living among them, but there are 30 million illegal immigrants mostly from Mexico residing in the United States.  Is that why you have chosen to live in Costa Rica?  Or is another reason entirely?  Is it because the U.S. government is being dominated by African-Americans, with a Black President in the WHITE House and a liberal Congress who passes all kinds of laws that don't benefit Whites, Conservatives, religious types, or good law-abiding citizens of these United States?  I for one don't plan on being here much longer the way things are going, the minute Barry took the over the Oval Office I started planning my exit strategy, it's back to Nicaragua for me or maybe somewhere where I know I'll have good time, but it's definitely Latin America.  I am an " indio " and you are a White man and for all the enmity that has engendered over the centuries it has been a somewhat peaceful if oftentimes brutal and one-sided coexistence, but that is the fundamental problem in this world that we must face:  race.  When I write on your website about the Nicaragua I know I'm just trying to get though to you that THEY, the radical Leftist Nicaraguans, not the peaceful Conservative ones such as myself, and that is operative word, CONSERVATIVE and I do reiterate that word in all it's effective meanings and connotations, would like to kick you guys out as soon as they have the chance and finally exterminate my kind once and for all I'm just trying to sound the alarm.  If anybody down there would just listen and forget the money, forget the homes, forget all the material things that Americans think the Nicaraguans want from America then they would exit stage right immediately.  Up here the Blacks have taken over and am seeing Whites and Hispanics flee in record numbers, where they're going it's anybody's guess but I know you feel good living in Costa Rica cos it seems like paradise right now, Nicaragua seems like paradise right now, but tomorrow it could all explode and then what will happen?  Have you ever studied the history of the revolutions of many of the countries in Africa, and the expulsion of all the races in Africa that weren't Black?  They are fierce, fierce about protecting their lands and that's why they are in the state they're in, the " indios " on this continent didn't have the same ideas on land rights that Europeans had so that's why the can live in misery forever if it needs be, cos the connection to the land is the strongest thing to an " indio ", not money.  Religion is the most important thing to a Muslim, family to an Asian, etc.  The " indios " can go on making all the clay pots and handicrafts and the gringos can bring them home cos that's all Latin America makes, and they're not asking for more than to eat and be left alone.  Why did Atahualpa give a roomful of gold to Pizzarro if he would leave him alone?  Because gold meant NOTHING to the Incas, just like it meant nothing to the Aztecs.  One man's gold was another man's garbage, in that instance.  Now if Pizarro started taking away all of Atahualpa's TOPAZ then there would have been bigger problems, do you get my meaning?  It's apples and oranges?  It's like a human speaking to a Martian.  IT'LL NEVER WORK.  Every human thinks differently and the strategies they employ to go about their lives are different and there is really no say in who has the upper hand or not, it's the way things are.  Has any human group ever REALLY stayed down?  Every group in history which has been oppressed has always risen up.  The Hebrews.  The Germans when they overthrew the Roman Empire.  The countless wars when one superior country had an upper hand for a while and then lost it.  THE AMERICANS in that little temper tantrum called the American Revolution.  If Reagan was still alive if anybody asked him if he would have REALLY invaded Nicaragua he would give one answer, albeit in private:  HELL NO!  Nicaraguans are the Vietnamese of Latin America:  poor, hardworking, family-oriented, rude, crude, headstrong, stubborn, and unyielding in their desire to live the way they want.  It's us silver-spoon sons of Somoza who bow down to the gringos and manipulate the rest of our brothers to do their bidding but what can we say?  It's in our DNA.  But that's a way of life in Nicaragua as I'm sure you saw personally.